Self Explanation In An Introductory Electrical Circuits Course To Enhance Problem Solving

Worked out examples play a prominent role in engineering education. Learning from examples requires active processing that often does not occur in our students, creating an illusion of understanding that can result in poor test performance 2 . How students process examples can help or hurt them. Many students try to mimic examples without understanding them, and have inaccurate pictures of their own understanding. Students who truly understand examples, and can abstract the ideas embodied by them, should be able to apply those ideas in other contexts and to more difficult problems.